Drink-drive jazz player 'lonely after love split'
Manchester Evening News|June 17, 2023
A JAZZ trumpeter was caught at more than three times the limit for drink driving while feeling the blues after his wife left him
 HARRISON GALLIVEN , STEPHEN TOPPING
Drink-drive jazz player 'lonely after love split'

James Lyons was clocked crawling along a road near his Timperley home at 10mph, Manchester magistrates court heard.

The 63-year-old told JPs 'it certainly won't happen again' after he was banned from getting behind the wheel for the second time in eight years. Lyons drove to a Nisa convenience store after bingeing on spirits in his kitchen, despite only living a fiveminute walk away from the shop, the court heard.

Officers found Lyons 'clearly intoxicated' in a car park. The trumpet and double bass player, who trained at the London College of Music, blew a reading of 119 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath with the legal limit being 35mg.

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